+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | March 8 | | | | 1949 - A silent greenish-white object was sighted in the sky near the | | Los Alamos Atomic Energy research facility in New Mexico. It flew | | toward the southeast at the altitude of the cloud layer, and was seen | | by guards Patterson and Lang from two guard stations: 103 and 106. | | (Source: Loren Gross, UFOs a History - 1949 (volume 1), p. 57; | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, March 1949 | | report). | | | | 1950 - A Naval commander sighted a UFO in the sky over Mazatlan, | | Mexico which he described as an "artificial device." At five o'clock | | in the morning the crew of two airliners, the Air Traffic Controller, | | and many other ground witnesses at Vandalia Airport, Ohio sighted a | | bullet-shaped UFO being chased by military jets. The UFO ascended | | very fast. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. | | 84). | | | | 1954 - A red disc-shaped UFO flew over the Laredo Air Force Base in | | Laredo, Texas on this day. It tilted to a vertical orientation and | | then shot straight up into the sky. It was reported by a pilot at the | | base. At 11:07 p.m. ten to twenty nocturnal lights in a crescent | | formation--possibly a single crescent-shaped object--flew over San | | Antonio, Texas. It made no sound. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May 1954; | | Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 110). | | | | 1957 - A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind in | | Baudette, Minnesota. It was luminous, about 5.5 meters in diameter, | | and flew so low that it appeared to suck up the snow on the ground. | | (Sources: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Top Secret; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 254). | | | | 1965 - At 7:40 p.m. three persons in Mount Airy, Maryland, including | | an instrument maker for the U.S. Bureau of Standards, saw a | | cigar-shaped object with six lights--two of them fixed red lights. | | It flew above them at a low altitude, and avoided hitting their house | | at the last moment. It was lost from sight in the northeast. The | | duration of the event was three minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case # 9305; NICAP UFO | | Investigator, May-June 1965, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 640; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO | | Experience, p. 238; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 144; Don | | Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52). | | | | 1966 - A retired Marine Corps aircraft mechanic saw a domed | | disc-shaped UFO hover over Chesterton, Indiana at 2:30 in the | | afternoon. The UFO was surrounded by a bright, misty haze, and | | hovered above a cloud bank for 4-5 minutes. It then tilted at an | | angle and shot away. (Source: Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New | | Look, p. 46). | | | | Chesterton, Indiana Daylight Disc - March 8, 1966 at 2:30 p.m. | | | | [Sketch of Chesterton, Indiana UFO - 1966] | | | | 1967 - There were at least 27 UFO reports made on this day from | | Australia, Spain, North America, and Peru. | | | | Leominster, Massachusetts Close Encounter with EM Effects - 1967 | | | | [] | | | | 1967 - Mr. and Mrs. Wallace were driving in Leominster, Massachusetts | | at 1:05 in the morning when they noticed an unusual light flying over | | a nearby cemetery. They drove closer to investigate and saw the UFO | | surrounded by a heavy fog or mist. They described the object as a | | bright bluish-white, glowing dome-shaped object that was hovering low | | to the ground with a rocking, pendulum motion. The rim of the object | | glowed as bright as an acetylene torch. The car's engine, lights, and | | radio failed. Mr. Wallace got out of the car and felt his arm tugged | | by some force against the body of the car. He felt tingling electric | | shocks and felt paralyzed in close presence to the object. The UFO | | wobbled, hummed, and then shot up vertically into sky. (Source: | | Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345; NICAP UFO | | Investigator, March 1967, p. 7; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume | | 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 199, 250, 267 & 331). | | | | 1967 - That night in Galesburg, Illinois a domed disc-shaped object | | with a spinning rim and a pulsating red light passed overhead, making | | a hissing sound. (Sources: NICAP case investigation files; John A. | | Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 24; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence | | Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 10). | | | | 1967 - Also that same night an elongated flying object with flashing | | body lights and light beams at each end was reported by multiple | | independent witnesses in Goodland, Kansas. The UFO reportedly made a | | sound "like a vacuum cleaner." (Sources: Norton (Kansas) Daily | | Telegram, March 1967; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 24; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. | | 173 & 332, citing James McDonald). | | | | 1977 - Nine independent witnesses watched a red ball of light | | maneuver against the wind in Gatchelville, Pennsylvania at 7:30 p.m. | | Holes were found burnt in the ground at a possible landing site. | | (Sources: Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook, p. 120; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 11471). | | | | 1982 - There were two close encounter UFO reports on this day from | | Georgia and Connecticut. At 1:45 p.m. three former Air Force pilots | | flying in a private corporate jet saw a ten foot diameter silver disc | | that flew within 25 feet of their left wingtip. They were flying | | close to Metter, Georgia at the time, 60 miles southwest of | | Allendale, South Carolina. At 8:15 p.m. three witnesses in a house in | | Bethel, Connecticut saw two rows of red lights pass over their house | | and fly off towards the north-northeast at a low altitude. The UFO | | caused the house to shake when it passed over. (Sources: MUFON UFO | | Journal, March 1992, p. 17; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases | | 13845 & 13846; International UFO Reporter, November-December 1982, p. | | 8). | | | | 1997 - A triangle-shaped UFO with a large dome at one end hovered low | | over a field in Lympe, England near the town of Hythe at three a.m. | | There were three witnesses. One of the witnesses, Ms. S. Hall, said | | that it had lots of bright lights around the sides and made a humming | | noise. (Source: Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 168). | | | | 1998 - On this afternoon a farmer in Rho, Lombardia, Italy saw a | | white object in the shape of an upside-down pear hovering above a | | field. He called his wife and both watched the object for about half | | an hour. During the episode a hatch slid open and an occupant | | emerged. The UFOnaut was only about 40 inches tall, with two huge | | black eyes. The being floated in the air close to the object for | | about ten minutes, then re-entered the object which rose vertically | | and left at a high rate of speed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3122, citing Joseph Trainor, | | UFO Roundup, Vol. 3 # 13). | | | | 2003 - A silent "flying wing" was seen by a couple leaving their home | | in Greenbelt, Maryland at 8:15 p.m. It flew below the clouds at an | | estimated 600-1,200 feet altitude. It had "pure white" circular | | lights on the wingtips, small red lights in the middle that | | brightened and dimmed. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 archived webpage). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: disc-shaped UFOs, domed | | discs, EM vehicle ignition interference, ground traces, hissing or hu | | mming sounds, levitating humanoid, low-flying UFOs, luminous UFOs, ne | | ar landings or landings, paralysis, pendulum motion, vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+